Mental_floss presents 7 facts about the spleen, that like the spleen itself, are mostly insignificant. At least, now you will know something about your spleen.
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Consider Your Spleen
Published November 10, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: blood filter, health, healthcare, medicine, spleen, trivia
How The Band-Aid Was Invented [video]
Published September 23, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Band-Aid, bandage, boo boo, Earl Dickson, health care, healthcare, invention, Johnson and Johnson, medicine, ouch, video
The Band-Aid Of The Future – VetiGel [video]
Published November 21, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Band-Aid, bandage, Brooklyn, coagulate, healthcare, Joe Landolina, medicine, New York City, plant-based polymer, plaster, Platelets, research, science, VetiGel
How To Save On Drugs [comic]
Published April 26, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: big pharma, cartoon, comic, Cornered, depression, drugs, funny, health industry, healthcare, heath insurance, HMO, humor, mental health, Mike Baldwin, Obamacare, pharmaceutical, prescription drug
5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan
Published December 7, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: expensive, fax machine, foreigner, healthcare, high tech, hospital, Japan, lifestyle, outsider
This list on Cracked.com enumerates a few unexpected things about living in Japan. To sum it up – everyday life in Japan is not as high tech as most Americans imagine.
Spooky Abandoned Leper Colony in NYC [pics]
Published February 11, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: abandoned leper colony, Bronx, Calcutta, contagious, decay, disease, healthcare, history, leper colony, medicine, New York, North Brother Island, NYC, pic, picture, quarantine, Typhoid Mary
Stairwells strewn with debris and walls crumbling slowly to dust, it is the island that New York forgot for 50 years. Now, in a series of extraordinarily eerie pictures, the lost world of North Brother – quarantine zone, leper colony and centre for drug addicts – has been brought back to life. It is hard to believe that these echoing corridors and abandoned halls were home to hundreds of patients – or that a criss-cross of tree-lined avenues were once roads. But the haunting quality of these pictures makes it easy to imagine that it was a place of indescribable misery, which one inmate compared to the notorious black hole of Calcutta.
The Real Reasons US Healthcare Is Overpriced [infographic]
Published May 6, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: economy, healthcare, medicine, Obamacare, Politics, single payer
Feel Older Now! What?
Published April 15, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Aged Simulation Set, caretaker, healthcare, inconvenience, Life Simulation, medicine, musculoskeletal, nursing, science, wtf
A Japanese medical supply company sells an Aged Simulation Set. I’m unsure about the value of the kit, but at least you look cool while wearing it. The site describes it as –
The aged simulation set is a teaching material intended to demonstrate the inconveniences felt by the aged due to musculoskeletal, visual and auditory aging. This set is the most suitable for medical practice, nursing and welfare training. Inconveniences to the aged due to the changes in bones, muscles, sight and hearing can be experienced with this simulation set.
If that isn’t your cup of tea, check out some of the other stuff available on their site.
GOP Proposes Dental Coverage [video]
Published March 22, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: conservative, Dental Coverage, funny, GOP, healthcare, humor, insurance, medicine, Republican, video
Arizona Governor Initiates Death Panels
Published March 7, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Arizona Governor, conservative, healthcare, Jan Brewer, Medicaid, medical, Obamacare, Politics, Republican, tea party
(Reuters) – A pacemaker and defibrillator fitted to carpenter Douglas Gravagna’s failing heart makes even rising from the couch of his Phoenix-valley home a battle. But it is not congestive heart failure that is killing him, he says. It is a decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to stop funding for some organ transplants as the state struggles to reduce a yawning budget deficit. “She’s signing death warrants — that’s what she’s doing. This is death for me,” says Gravagna, 44, a heavy-set man who takes 14 medications to stay alive. Gravagna is among 98 people denied state Medicaid funding for potentially life-saving transplants and at the forefront of a harrowing battle over the state’s public finances.
Something For The Tea Party To Consider [pic]
Published January 22, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: healthcare, hypocrite, Obama, pic, picture, Politics, religion, socialist, tea party